[PATCH v2 3/3] mailbox: add Microchip IPC support

[Jassi Brar]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM <Valentina.FernandezAlanis at microchip.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/11/2024 00:23, Jassi Brar wrote:

> Regarding the EXPORT function, I understand that it’s also possible to
> retrieve con_priv from mbox_chan in the client. However, I felt it would
> be cleaner to export the function to obtain the channel ID directly,
> rather than declaring the struct ipc_chan_info in a header file to make
> it accessible to the client.
>
> If necessary, I can remove the function and instead expose struct
> ipc_chan_info in linux/mailbox/mchp-ipc.h.
>
Yes please avoid EXPORT at any cost. They are only acceptable when no
other means exist.

> >
> >> +static struct platform_driver mchp_ipc_driver = {
> >> +       .driver = {
> >> +               .name = "microchip_ipc",
> >> +               .of_match_table = mchp_ipc_of_match,
> >> +       },
> >> +       .probe = mchp_ipc_probe,
> > The driver could be built as a module, so please provide .remove()
> > even if you never intend to unload it.
> In this particular case, there is nothing specific to implement in the
> .remove() function because all resources allocated in the .probe()
> function are managed using devm_*

OK.